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Steam Power!

Dave in QCA
Dave in QCA Member Posts: 1,788
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This is way off topic, but I thought that many people on this site would enjoy watching.

It is relevant when one considers that the waste steam from many old engines was used to heat buildings.

Growing up in Mt. Pleasant, IA, I used to ride my bike out to the Thresher's grounds and stand and watch this old machine run.... and get in trouble for being late coming home because I had stood motionless for over an hour and watched this old baby slowly turn.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u41sah-rRO8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u41sah-rRO8</a>
Dave in Quad Cities, America
Weil-McLain 680 with Riello 2-stage burner, December 2012. Firing rate=375MBH Low, 690MBH Hi.
System = Early Dunham 2-pipe Vacuo-Vapor (inlet and outlet both at bottom of radiators) Traps are Dunham #2 rebuilt w. Barnes-Jones Cage Units, Dunham-Bush 1E, Mepco 1E, and Armstrong TS-2. All valves haveTunstall orifices sized at 8 oz.
Current connected load EDR= 1,259 sq ft, Original system EDR = 2,100 sq ft Vaporstat, 13 oz cutout, 4 oz cutin - Temp. control Tekmar 279.
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  • Steamhead
    Steamhead Member Posts: 17,314
    There is a similar Corliss engine

    at the Rough & Tumble Engineering Association at Kinzers, PA which is just east of Lancaster. That one ran an ammonia refrigeration compressor at the Kunzler meat packing plant, which is located somewhere in that area and is still in business today.



    Watching one of these things run makes you appreciate the Dead Men who designed, installed and operated them. You don't find that level of craftsmanship today, people just say "oh, there's an app for that".
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